I recommend this book.

Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Print. 

Among other things, it relates how for many years Poland only recognized marriages contracted by the Roman Catholic Church.  This made the children of Jewish marriages bastards.  One could pay a heafty fee to authorities to have the child legitimized by the state. 
How kind.

A Tale

... A tale told by and idiot 
Macbeth V:v

Yes, for Macbeth surely it must seem.  Witches had prophesied.  Or had theyt?  Instead may one not say that they instead read the depths of Maribeth's ambition.  Did he, Macbeth allow himself to even  acknowledge on a conscious level this ambition.  The ambition to rise in power.  The ambition for kingship.  

But, at this point in act five scene five when Macbeth pronounces on life, he has followed the trail of his ambition to it's end.  Given that all has turned upside down from where Macbeth thought he would have it one can see his point.   But, one might also see The playwrights point.  That the vanity of this world fades and does so fast.   It leaves us with the taste of ashes in the mouth.   

We have those stolid time honored sources of wisdom as guides.  They warn us away from ambition for vanity.  They tell us that life may have no meaning or purpose.  But, that, if that be so, it then falls to us to crate our own and do so wisely. 

Wisdom -- Pay attention now y'all

     I recently heard a W. F. Buckley type conservative on NPR speculate on 

Trumps appeal.   The appeal comes from a kind of nationalism.  

     The nationalism does not resemble the fiscal small government conservatism of Buckley and Goldwater.  It has strog elemts of jingoism and chauvinism it it.   It relies primarily on emotion and  fear as opposed to reason and responsibility.   

     Pat Buchanan has indulged in this kind of spin since the early ninties.  Whether it's anti-migrant rhetoric resembels the anti-antisemitism of depression pre-war Germany remains to be seen.  For my part it does.  

     Trump will say anything to get attention.  He will do anything without considering the consequences.  Like any other American business person, he only considers the short run.,   Like John M Caines, "... in the long run we're all dead."

Bored? Here's an answer.

Are you bored?  

Looking for something to do.  

Well here's and idea.  

Help infiltrate and disrupt this 

White Nationalist 

organization. 

Maybe the phrase white nationalist isn't quite clear.  It means racist.  They have a personal bias against people who do not hail from North European extraction.  Mind you, Arabs and Turks who have lived for generations in Paris or Berlin don't count.  You got to be white.

What to do.  Join the NPI.  Infiltrate their meetings.  subtly disrupt their operations, directions and goals.  And, by all means document your findings.  Report your findings to entities like Mother Jones, The Village voice, Rolling Stone,  and your local progressive periodicals.  

Check it out 
Select (  we don't click on this blog  ) the link cited below.


http://www.npiamerica.org/

Giving up

I'm not praying for tomorrow.  

I've given up. 

If we lived through the utter stupidity of Harry Trueman and Herbert Hoover 

we'll make it though 

Trump.